PSA: Windows Phone Store down? Throwing error 805a01f7.

The Windows Phone Store is dead. Long live the Windows Phone Store! It would seem the store is inaccessible to many, with app listings returning the error 805a01f7 when a user attempts to view more information or download an app / update. Many are also receiving a "We can't search right now, be sure Internet is available and SkyNet hasn't been activated."

We've received follow-up reports that the Store has in fact come back online and is once again accessible. This may be delayed in your market so fear not if the above errors are still showing. But what's the issue?

According to the Xbox LIVE Service Status, there are no immediate issues that have been published by Microsoft so we can only assume that this downtime with the Windows Phone Store is temporary and is due to maintenance. Be sure to head on over to our community forum and join in the discussion that has started.

Was strange for me. Whe trying to update an app, it would actually download the update, instead of installing, I'd get the error message. Strange. Wouldn't think I could download it at all if the store was down. Persistance paid off though. I kept trying again and again, and eventually all of them except Nok's Panorama update installed.

I just bought Lumia 920 and wated to download the apps to customize the phone and saw this error. Wondering if it was only me, luckily I saw this post now, it is completely down. It is relief :) -At least it means my phone is working properly, of course hope store starts working soon so everyone can do whatever they want to do :) -

That's right. I haven't paid much attention to this (marketplace outages) in the past, but if Microsoft wants to win over the consumer, cryptic error messages and unclear communication for maintenance outages will just solidify the image of user unfriendliness and software that breaks. So, hopefully they can improve this, and "more hopefully," this is not their standard message when the marketplace receives maintenance (which ought to be transparent for the most part, and not take it down).

Just keep trying.
This issue happens randomly on my side. When I try to open an app from store search, it gave me 805a01f7, but when I try to open the second time, it worked. The same thing for downloading, when I retried the downloading, no more 805a01f7.
So I guess it is the server load issue.

This was happening to me a few months ago when trying to purchase board express and only board express using my new microsoft/outlook account. Very frustrating. Started working again after I contacted windows support through twitter.

Either you have sign out from set up my account from app "people " in WP8. Or you dont have an account or you had it the account and then deleted or messed with another account. So look at set up my account at APPLICATION PEOPLE
This is real solution trust me .